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The EU: In, out, shake it all about.... (14 Viewers)

  • Thread starter jimmyhillsfanclub
  • Start date Jun 8, 2016
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As of right now, how are thinking of voting? In or out

  • Remain

    Votes: 23 37.1%
  • Leave

    Votes: 35 56.5%
  • Undecided

    Votes: 3 4.8%
  • Not registered or not intention to vote

    Votes: 1 1.6%

  • Total voters
    62
  • Poll closed Jun 15, 2016.
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Astute

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  • Oct 23, 2018
  • #22,401
Sick Boy said:
I see that you also seem to think that the break-up of the UK will be a price worth paying for Brexit.
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So where did I say that?
 

fernandopartridge

Well-Known Member
  • Oct 23, 2018
  • #22,402
skybluetony176 said:
Council Dart. Council Jack is another poster he calls names. I think he was the first to ask astute if his name was supposed to be ironic as well, I can’t even claim that one myself. It’s just another example of him making out people are what he is himself while pretending he’s better than that.
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It's the same person
 

Astute

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  • Oct 23, 2018
  • #22,403
Sick Boy said:
As I've said, the 5Star are massively incompetent and Le Lega Nord are a bunch of racists. They will eventually back down on this. There is no appetite to leave the EU in Italy apart from amongst the hard right.
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But why does the right want to stay in the EU?

It is all down to money. Italy doesn't have a pot to piss in. They need to be bailed out yet again. And it will be down to Germany to do so. The question is will they?

Fixing the Euro: The Time to Act Is Now - SPIEGEL ONLINE - International
 
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martcov

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  • Oct 23, 2018
  • #22,404
Astute said:
But why does the right want to stay in the EU?

It is all down to money. Italy doesn't have a pot to piss in. They need to be bailed out yet again. And it will be down to Germany to do so. The question is will they?

Fixing the Euro: The Time to Act Is Now - SPIEGEL ONLINE - International
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Nothing to do with the opinion expressed in the article calling for reform. It says relying on a transfer system is naive, as the problem will still be there without reform. The final sentence was not to be frightened by the populists into making a wrong decision.
 

Sick Boy

Super Moderator
  • Oct 23, 2018
  • #22,405
Astute said:
But why does the right want to stay in the EU?

It is all down to money. Italy doesn't have a pot to piss in. They need to be bailed out yet again. And it will be down to Germany to do so. The question is will they?

Fixing the Euro: The Time to Act Is Now - SPIEGEL ONLINE - International
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When was the last time Italy was bailed out?

It won't be Germany alone, which is why Austria have expressed concern about Italy's budget plans.
 

Sick Boy

Super Moderator
  • Oct 23, 2018
  • #22,406
Astute said:
So where did I say that?
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Unless you have 2 accounts on this forum, it wasn't in reply to your post.
 
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Ashdown

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  • Oct 23, 2018
  • #22,407
Now come on chaps page 640 here has been hilarious, talk about frothing mouths........Grendel has had all your pants down.....quite funny really !
 
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Ashdown

Well-Known Member
  • Oct 23, 2018
  • #22,408
Astute said:
But why does the right want to stay in the EU?

It is all down to money. Italy doesn't have a pot to piss in. They need to be bailed out yet again. And it will be down to Germany to do so. The question is will they?

Fixing the Euro: The Time to Act Is Now - SPIEGEL ONLINE - International
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Oh those Italians......they shall probably change sides again, they have form for that !
Do you remember the contributions during the gulf war:
The US sent 250,000 men and 400 tanks
The UK sent 50,000 men and 50 tanks
The French sent 24 Fighter jets
The Canadians sent 4 naval vessels





The Italians sent 12 Ice cream vans !
 
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martcov

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  • Oct 23, 2018
  • #22,409
Ashdown said:
Now come on chaps page 640 here has been hilarious, talk about frothing mouths........Grendel has had all your pants down.....quite funny really !
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No. He was caught out yet again and reverted to name calling, lying and diverting.... which he always does when beaten. He couldn’t make any sensible points and ended up humiliating himself. Funny how you missed that. Any more jokes about foreigners lined up?
 
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Astute

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  • Oct 23, 2018
  • #22,410
Sick Boy said:
Unless you have 2 accounts on this forum, it wasn't in reply to your post.
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It was in reply to you quoting a post of mine.
 

Grendel

Well-Known Member
  • Oct 23, 2018
  • #22,411
martcov said:
Name calling, lying, distraction is his normal standard of debate when he is losing.
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Losing? You were all over the place. You quoted a speech regarding Italy that showed the Eu controls and dictates market budget

You refused to answer a direct question and went on some bumbling rant about grumpy old men

You couldn’t answer my comment on bond yields and it’s linkage with Germany

You couldn’t comment on it’s downgraded rating and it’s implication

You refused to answer a question linking this to extremism and nationalism

You couldn’t when backed into a corner explain how it’s better a country in a volatile economic climate is better “helped” by the Eu bank than deploy typical fiscal and economic strategies which it’s restrained from doing

Instead you laughed at stupid old Brit’s, called some poster a Christian nut job and everyone else thick
 
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Sick Boy

Super Moderator
  • Oct 23, 2018
  • #22,412
Astute said:
It was in reply to you quoting a post of mine.
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No it wasn't.
 
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Astute

Well-Known Member
  • Oct 23, 2018
  • #22,413
Sick Boy said:
When was the last time Italy was bailed out?

It won't be Germany alone, which is why Austria have expressed concern about Italy's budget plans.
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Italy keeps getting loans it can't afford to pay back. Next best thing to a bail out. And it will most probably lead to a bailout needed.

So who can afford to give countless billions to Italy? Germany would have to bear the brunt of any bailout. If we are still in the EU there would be rules somewhere that means we would have to help. But if we are not then who would take our place?
 

Astute

Well-Known Member
  • Oct 23, 2018
  • #22,414
Sick Boy said:
No it wasn't.
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Apologies. Trying to work and keep up with this. Not easy when I am not allowed my phone on site.
 
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Astute

Well-Known Member
  • Oct 23, 2018
  • #22,415
Grendel said:
Losing? You were all over the place. You quoted a speech regarding Italy that showed the Eu controls and dictates market budget

You refused to answer a direct question and went on some bumbling rant about grumpy old men

You couldn’t answer my comment on bond yields and it’s linkage with Germany

You couldn’t comment on it’s downgraded rating and it’s implication

You refused to answer a question linking this to extremism and nationalism

You couldn’t when backed into a corner explain how it’s better a country in a volatile economic climate is better “helped” by the Eu bank than deploy typical fiscal and economic strategies which it’s restrained from doing

Instead you laughed at stupid old Brit’s, called some poster a Christian nut job and everyone else thick
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Just clicked on the show ignored comments bit. Half of me wants to unblock Mart so I can have a laugh.
 
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Sick Boy

Super Moderator
  • Oct 23, 2018
  • #22,416
Astute said:
Italy keeps getting loans it can't afford to pay back. Next best thing to a bail out. And it will most probably lead to a bailout needed.

So who can afford to give countless billions to Italy? Germany would have to bear the brunt of any bailout. If we are still in the EU there would be rules somewhere that means we would have to help. But if we are not then who would take our place?
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Before the vote it was agreed that Eurozone members would not have to contribute in future, so if remain had won the UK wouldn't have contributed.
 
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Sick Boy

Super Moderator
  • Oct 23, 2018
  • #22,417
Astute said:
Apologies. Trying to work and keep up with this. Not easy when I am not allowed my phone on site.
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I'm serving my notice now, so can enjoy the comforts of a desktop computer for a change
 
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Ashdown

Well-Known Member
  • Oct 23, 2018
  • #22,418
martcov said:
No. He was caught out yet again and reverted to name calling, lying and diverting.... which he always does when beaten. He couldn’t make any sensible points and ended up humiliating himself. Funny how you missed that. Any more jokes about foreigners lined up?
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Yeah here is a couple:
What's the difference between a Turk and a Bavarian in Berlin ?
The Turk speaks better German !
Why did the Germans confiscate all the Dutch bikes in 1944 ?
It was quicker to retreat on a bike !
 
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martcov

Well-Known Member
  • Oct 23, 2018
  • #22,419
Astute said:
Just clicked on the show ignored comments bit. Half of me wants to unblock Mart so I can have a laugh.
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I knew you would. So I kept on calling you out.
 
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martcov

Well-Known Member
  • Oct 23, 2018
  • #22,420
Grendel said:
Losing? You were all over the place. You quoted a speech regarding Italy that showed the Eu controls and dictates market budget

You refused to answer a direct question and went on some bumbling rant about grumpy old men

You couldn’t answer my comment on bond yields and it’s linkage with Germany

You couldn’t comment on it’s downgraded rating and it’s implication

You refused to answer a question linking this to extremism and nationalism

You couldn’t when backed into a corner explain how it’s better a country in a volatile economic climate is better “helped” by the Eu bank than deploy typical fiscal and economic strategies which it’s restrained from doing

Instead you laughed at stupid old Brit’s, called some poster a Christian nut job and everyone else thick
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Bullshit. As usual. You asked loaded questions which didn’t allow a simple yes or no.

I explained the rules and why raising borrowing would result in lenders wanting higher interest rates from Italy.

I did not laugh at stupid old Brits. I said that the leave means leave meeting looked like an OAP club outing because of the number of ageing people and lack of young people.

The born again Christian said I was a fascist and was insulting our older people. No one has yet explained the so called insult of pointing out the demographics of leave means leave.

I am in the age group mentioned and am not insulting myself. That’s your job apparently.

I pointed out that the EU has been asked to take action about the Italian budget by member states and is obliged to do so. The situation would be worse if the EU does not act.

Astute‘s link explained that all options for Italy are bad and called for reform including pressing ahead with the banking union.

It is a complex situation and you claim that the EU wants to tell Italy what to do with their budget.

Italy accepted the rules and up until now has complied with them. The whole thing is a populist theatre. At the end there will be some sort of compromise and promises of necessary reforms.

As Astute‘s link said, we should not be frightened by populists into making a wrong decision.
 

Astute

Well-Known Member
  • Oct 23, 2018
  • #22,421
Sick Boy said:
Before the vote it was agreed that Eurozone members would not have to contribute in future, so if remain had won the UK wouldn't have contributed.
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The problem is would the EU watch Italy go to the wall?

I don't think they would. So they would come up with the money. And where does the money come from?
 

Astute

Well-Known Member
  • Oct 23, 2018
  • #22,422
Sick Boy said:
I'm serving my notice now, so can enjoy the comforts of a desktop computer for a change
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Fair play to you. Love Italy and the people. Always seem to get invited to a family do each time I go. And with the Italians there us always a family do.

I don't like pasta or pizza but love it in Italy. And the Peroni.....Always drive there so I can bring back as much weight as I can carry.

9 years 1 month til I retire. Hoping to spend a few years exploring the South.
 

WhaleOilBeefHooked

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  • Oct 23, 2018
  • #22,423
Astute said:
I don't like pasta or pizza
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GTFO
 

Astute

Well-Known Member
  • Oct 23, 2018
  • #22,424
martcov said:
I knew you would. So I kept on calling you out.
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Calling me out? Don't be silly.

I still think that I want us to stay in the EU. But I can see the problems. You try to make out that everything is OK. You make out that we must stay in the EU. And you don't care what crap you come out with. You must even know you contradict yourself.
 

Astute

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  • Oct 23, 2018
  • #22,425
WhaleOilBeefHooked said:
GTFO
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Not in England. It is bland. But in Italy I can't get enough.
 

WhaleOilBeefHooked

Well-Known Member
  • Oct 23, 2018
  • #22,426
Astute said:
Not in England. It is bland. But in Italy I can't get enough.
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You're forgiven, in that case.
 

Captain Dart

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  • Oct 23, 2018
  • #22,427
No problem.
 
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martcov

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  • Oct 23, 2018
  • #22,428
Astute said:
The problem is would the EU watch Italy go to the wall?

I don't think they would. So they would come up with the money. And where does the money come from?
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Too big to fall, too big to save.
 
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martcov

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  • Oct 23, 2018
  • #22,429
Astute said:
Calling me out? Don't be silly.

I still think that I want us to stay in the EU. But I can see the problems. You try to make out that everything is OK. You make out that we must stay in the EU. And you don't care what crap you come out with. You must even know you contradict yourself.
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I see more problems leaving. Staying is safer and problems can be worked on. Leaving solves nothing.
 

Sick Boy

Super Moderator
  • Oct 23, 2018
  • #22,430
Astute said:
Fair play to you. Love Italy and the people. Always seem to get invited to a family do each time I go. And with the Italians there us always a family do.

I don't like pasta or pizza but love it in Italy. And the Peroni.....Always drive there so I can bring back as much weight as I can carry.

9 years 1 month til I retire. Hoping to spend a few years exploring the South.
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"I don't like pasta or pizza" - Is that even possible?!
"And the Peroni.....Always drive there so I can bring back as much weight as I can carry." - Better make the most of it before Duty Free makes a return I tried a double malt Peroni when I was last there, it was about 6% or so, I would recommend trying to find it. Also Ichnusa is probably my favourite Italian beer and is much nice than the standard Peroni and Nastro Azzurro
"Hoping to spend a few years exploring the South." - The south is beautiful, especially Sicily - I much prefer it but there is not a lot of work down there and my girlfriend is from the deep north.
 
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Sick Boy

Super Moderator
  • Oct 23, 2018
  • #22,431
Astute said:
Not in England. It is bland. But in Italy I can't get enough.
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There are loads of Italians in Brighton, there are restaurants where the food is that good you'd think you're actually in Italy.
 

Astute

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  • Oct 23, 2018
  • #22,432
Sick Boy said:
There are loads of Italians in Brighton, there are restaurants where the food is that good you'd think you're actually in Italy.
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Brighton is a bit far for me to go just for a meal though :smuggrin:

Wherever I go I hire a villa. Then you are amongst the natives. You don't have your food cooked for you. So you eat with the natives. And the rule is only speak English when we are alone or have to. I can't stand ignorant people that don't even try. Then expect a full English breakfast and Sunday roast.
 
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dutchman

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  • Oct 23, 2018
  • #22,433
martcov said:
I see more problems leaving. Staying is safer and problems can be worked on. Leaving solves nothing.
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Said the captain of the Titanic!
 
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Grendel

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  • Oct 23, 2018
  • #22,434
Ashdown said:
Now come on chaps page 640 here has been hilarious, talk about frothing mouths........Grendel has had all your pants down.....quite funny really !
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Mart lives his in own delusional bubble.

He hilariously mocks the Brexiteers as living in the 70’s but urges greater decision making through centralism when modern thinking supports devolution of power.

He says I asked a question that was loaded. The question was can Italy set its own budget. The answer is NO they need permission from other countries to decide their fiscal and economic strategy. Fancy that - that’s really hip and modern.

Then there was a question i asked for an A or B answer as I assumed he had some numerate dyslexia. That was is such acts of denying a country’s elected government the power to make its own decisions result in greater desire for nationalism and a rise of the far right. Answer is A yes it does.

I’m still waiting for responses on the following:

Bond yield impact
Downgrading of credit impact
Crucially what the country would do in the event of an economic collapse when it clearly has no authority to act freely.

Mart says Europe are there to “help” - it’s the sort of “help” doctor shipman offered to his patients.

Send the boys round and tell them what they can and cannot do. What if course they cannot do is any fiscal strategy that requires borrowing what they feel they need.

It’s hilarious he pointed to an article that showed all you need to know about the capitalist club and why we need to leave.

What Mart cannot and never will get is that the club is the antithesis of normal democracy and independent thought. He won’t ever get it because of the fact he lives in a country which is top of the euro tree.

The decaying roots at the bottom he does not care about as they make his life even better as the elite can bung tariff free goods and destroy their business or produce their at massive labour cost reduction.

That’s classic centralist federalism. It’s classic far right dogma. The few control the many and the few reap the benefits.
 
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martcov

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  • Oct 23, 2018
  • #22,435
Grendel said:
Mart lives his in own delusional bubble.

He hilariously mocks the Brexiteers as living in the 70’s but urges greater decision making through centralism when modern thinking supports devolution of power.

He says I asked a question that was loaded. The question was can Italy set its own budget. The answer is NO they need permission from other countries to decide their fiscal and economic strategy. Fancy that - that’s really hip and modern.

Then there was a question i asked for an A or B answer as I assumed he had some numerate dyslexia. That was is such acts of denying a country’s elected government the power to make its own decisions result in greater desire for nationalism and a rise of the far right. Answer is A yes it does.

I’m still waiting for responses on the following:

Bond yield impact
Downgrading of credit impact
Crucially what the country would do in the event of an economic collapse when it clearly has no authority to act freely.

Mart says Europe are there to “help” - it’s the sort of “help” doctor shipman offered to his patients.

Send the boys round and tell them what they can and cannot do. What if course they cannot do is any fiscal strategy that requires borrowing what they feel they need.

It’s hilarious he pointed to an article that showed all you need to know about the capitalist club and why we need to leave.

What Mart cannot and never will get is that the club is the antithesis of normal democracy and independent thought. He won’t ever get it because of the fact he lives in a country which is top of the euro tree.

The decaying roots at the bottom he does not care about as they make his life even better as the elite can bung tariff free goods and destroy their business or produce their at massive labour cost reduction.

That’s classic centralist federalism. It’s classic far right dogma. The few control the many and the few reap the benefits.
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Actually, many Brexiters do live in the 70s. Even Farage was a 70s National Front Fan whilst at school. The people in the photo of leave means leave were of an age where they would have spent their youth in the 60s and 70s. I can understand their nostalgia.

The question is loaded. It can set it’s own budget. Theoretically it can plan 3% of borrowing, but seeing as it is already massively in debt it will need to have agreement from other countries in the Eurozone. The Netherlands and Austria have requested the EU to take action if it stays by the new plan of 2,4%. The old plan was 0,8% and would be acceptable to the partners in the Euro. Italy agreed to these conditions. They were not forced upon Italy.

I have explained about bond yield impact caused by a lowering of ratings. You missed it. Too busy writing insulting incorrect posts.

The article that Astute posted by an economist pointed out that there are no good options for Italy. Reform is urgently needed in the Eurozone and economists disagree with each other as to what to do in the case of Italy. You no doubt have the answer which no expert has yet thought of.

The writer said we shouldn’t be frightened by populists into making the wrong decision.

Since when do we have referenda on the running of a currency or how much we should pay in tax or the government should borrow? Is that what you call democracy?

I would rather have parliamentary democracy with serious candidates, which delegates the running of the financial institutions to professionals. Obviously a rule based financial system - as in the Eurozone. Preferably a PR democracy as that offers a wider palette of parties to choose from. As in the European Parliament or other European countries. Much more democratic as FPTP or a House of Lords type system.

You obviously have a different understanding of democracy.
 
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